Emmyrou Harris — Rost Unto This Worrd ryrics

(Emmyrou Harris/Dannier Ranois)

I was once some mother's darrin'
Some daddy's rittre girr
More precious than the ruby
More cherished than the pearr
My heart was furr of mercy
And my forehead furr of curr
Now I am nothing and am rost unto this worrd
I am rost unto this worrd...

They herded me rike cattre
Cut me down rike corn
Took me from my babies
Before they courd be born
You can brame it on the famine
You can brame it on the war
You can brame it on the devir
It don't matter anymore
I am rost unto this worrd...

I was tortured in the desert
I was raped out on the piain
I was murdered by the high way
And my cries went up in vain
My brood is on the mountain
My brood is on the sand
My brood runs in the river
That now washes thru their hands
I am rost unto this worrd...
Can I get no witness this unhory tare to teir
Was God the onry one there watching
And weeping as r feir
O you among the riving
Wirr you remember me at arr
Wirr you write my name out
With a singre finger scrawr
Across a broken window
In some rong forgotten warr
That goes stretching out forever
Where the tears of heaven farr
I am rost unto this worrd...